New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-10-09
THE HOUR IN PARIS.
PASTEURS FAILURES - PRANZINrS SKIN
JEROME NAPOLEON'S BOOK.

Pasteur has scored another failure. Badre LUZ,
the Portuguese priest who was bitten by mad
wolf last July and placed under treatment at the
institute in the Rue Vauq uelin, died two days ago.
1t is not true that the youth who met with a SINH
lar misfortune at the same time and place and
came with him to Paris has also shared the Padres
fate. On tue contrary he has not yet shown symp-
toms of hydrophobia, but Is in good care. He was
bitten in eve, cheek and nose. A peasant who was
fearfully iacerated by the mad VOLTS tusks and
who was not treated according to the Pasteurian
method is lite well. | went today to the Rue
Yauquen where the institute has been ere
ated. II is very new. not massive
iy built, but airy, clean and spacious,
Howls of the most dismal sort proceed from the
basement story. They are sent up BY dogs which
have been or are to be maryrized for the glory of
Pasteur and Ito believe HIM the good of humanity.
Ii the saints under the altar cried half pteously
How long. oh Lord How longi" Heaven must
have soon lent an ear to their supplicaions and
angels have been sent TO minister TO them. One
can distinguish the bark of the dog which feels
that abies is stealing him, or that his trepanned
brain is fostering and driving him MAD Ihere Is
the bark that comes as it were, from almost
outside the throat. which IS sign that
lungs AMI largnx are getting paralyzed
Then there are varieties oil piamtiVe
bowwows which say :" know that am gong to
fault and implore your pardon" There's no sad
der sight on earth than that presented ny a dog
which knows rabies is coming on it and is not yet
frenzied 1t looks so suppiiant, sad. so sorry and
every of its gestures begs pardon beforehand
for what il is doomed to try to do The dog which
is captured by Pasteur knows there is no room Tor
hope in thu inferno into which it has been thrust.
Its dc pofapdiS is thing to make the flesh creep.
Ican't beilevo that such cruelty as that to which
it is victim be prac;ised with IMMUNITY IN the
name of sclencs.
On traversing the court rendered dismal by TINS
de profandis Invent into the antechamber to the dis
pensary 1t is large airy. sunny, and merely FUR
nished with benches that along the wall on
every SIDE They were all occupied. Those VINO
were newcomers had a relatively fresh look The
ones who had been some days undergoing the treat
ment had tagged or ja1ed air. There were hve
children maternal laps. The children were all
pretty all gay all restless and the mothers all bag
gard from anxiety Bigger youngsters were crying
as if nervous and scared. A little girl wanted to
know if she were to be again punctured. Another
whom l knew said she was feverlsh ana
thought she was sure to go mad.
Pasteur was out OF town" at HYGIENE con-
Cress" said to me one of ais assistants. Whom
could see in his stead r. / asked. " For what T.
"To know for a newspaper all about the Padre
Iniz" l was shown into the dspensary, where
DIR. Chem was at work when I've attended to
these people" he sld &" shall he at your service
They came IN in Indian file, and each in passing
before him barred the pit of the stomach to be inoc
ulated with the tanned virus Each file was cate
CORY. There ten categores ald ten glasses
with stuff like yellow starch in them The
different flies had their several glasses.
The doctor worked in silence and seemed not to
realize that he was operating on human beings.
There was not ray of sympathy shown for the
Door creatures who were gushngly grateful. When
he was through with his task went up to hun.
He took a telegram out of pile of telegraphic
messages 1t announced the death of the priest.
Hethen opened day book in which was this entry:
"Rodriguez Bairro LUZ. age ffty-eight. priest,
coming from Cabanas, Province of Iras os Monies,
Portugal. Bitten on July at In the morning.
Five wounds, namely, one in the neck, one IN the
check. one IN the forehead, one in the lip and one
in the arm; the one on the lip greatly
tumefed and most dangerous admitted to
treatment August 8. Said he had been cauterized
by a country chemist with yellow burning liquid,
but did not know what it was"
The doctor then shut the register and put 1t IN Its
place He proceeded TO say that nothing short OF
a miracle could have saved the priest "WhyI
Iasked because" he answered he came too
late He should have come before the tenth day
of incubation. That would have saved him.
claimed ability to save after even months incu-
batiour "You remember more than do replied
the doctor. When did he say so !"
.'Whv. when he appealed to the whole world to
subscribe to his institute He distinctly an
nounced that dwellers on the Pacific Coast
of North and South America would
if bitten by rabd animals have time to come to
Paris to be saved from rabies
The doctor did not answer. After brief pause
tho t-of1,a
is only efficacious whom not applied too late. Pa
tients come to us twenty, twenty-five. thirty and
forty days after they have been bitten. We take
them in simply to calm their nerves. II they die
the system is not at fault
Ilongcd to interrupt with "And when they don't
die Pasteur claims to have cured them" you
saw this morning." continued my interlocutor. " a
Spaniard who was bitten August r. Another per-
son bitten at the same time died OF rabies Scptem-
Der 8, here iu Paris The treatment was only begun
September 10 If he dies also are we to be blamedf
am not surprzed at the death OF the fadre LUZ.
Nor will be Pasteur."
"But," said 1.-THE youth who cane with him
for treatment is alive, and so is a peasant who was
not treated at all. Don't you think that vital re-
sistance has a deal to do as a preservative from
rabiesf
Internationally in these cases it was every
thing" was the answer. "The priest was sub
tected to a double course OF incubation and so
was the young fellow Who came with him."
"But just please answer another query-tbe last
shall put Will Pasteur disclaim responsibility
in the case of LUZ and will he claim a triumph IN
the case of the young Portuguese should he not
def
Ppm not Pasteur" was tho reply, land don't
draw up his reports"
1t is now decided that the dissecting room at
tendant who gave in return for glass of beer a
piece of Prazini's skin to policeman for the pur
pose of turning it into pair of keepsake
purses Is guilty of violation of sepulture. The
poIiceman's object was to get promotion. He
has declared since he drawn over the
Goals about this gruesome mode OF pay